Scott's Last Expedition
Author: Robert Falcon Scott
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 596
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The Last Expedition
Author: Daniel Liebowitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780393059038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the 19th century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as Stanley's column hacked its way across the last great, unexplored territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company.
Scott's Last Expedition
Author: Robert Falcon Scott
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 521
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMrs. Chippy's Last Expedition
Author: Caroline Alexander
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1999-03-24
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0060932619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe carpenter has a very fine cat who is known as "Mrs. Chippie"... -- from the diary of Commander F. A. Worsley, captain of Shackleton's Endurance When Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in the Antarctic ice, all twenty-nine members of the crew were pushed to their limits of survival, including Mrs. Chippy, the ship's estimable cat. Fortunately for posterity, Mrs. Chippy left a diary of the ordeal. Closely based on the true events of Shackleton's heroic journey, and illustrated with authentic photographs taken by Frank Hurley, expedition photographer, Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition is a firsthand account of one of the greatest adventures in history--from a unique point of view.
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Author: David Roberts
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-01-28
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0393089649
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Gripping and superb. This book will steal the night from you." —Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?" This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley’s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States.
Fatal Journey
Author: Peter C. Mancall
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009-06-09
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0786747870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates Hudson's final expedition. In the winter of 1610, after navigating dangerous fields of icebergs near the northern tip of Labrador, Hudson's small ship became trapped in winter ice. Provisions grew scarce and tensions mounted amongst the crew. Within months, the men mutinied, forcing Hudson, his teenage son, and seven other men into a skiff, which they left floating in the Hudson Bay. A story of exploration, desperation, and icebound tragedy, Fatal Journey vividly chronicles the undoing of the great explorer, not by an angry ocean, but at the hands of his own men.
South!
Author: Ernest Shackleton
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2019-01-16T02:44:26Z
Total Pages: 477
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth! tells one of the most thrilling tales of exploration and survival against the odds which has ever been written. It details the experiences of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set off in 1914 to make an attempt to cross the Antarctic continent. Under the direction of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition comprised two components: one party sailing on the Endurance into the Weddell Sea, which was to attempt the actual crossing; and another party on board the Aurora, under the direction of Aeneas Mackintosh, sailing into the Ross Sea on the other side of the continent and tasked with establishing depots of stores as far south as possible for the use of the party attempting the crossing. Shackleton gives a highly readable account of the fate of both parties of the Expedition. Both fell victim to the severe environmental conditions of the region, and it was never possible to attempt the crossing. The Endurance was trapped in pack-ice in the Weddell Sea and the ship was eventually crushed by the pressure of the ice, leaving Shackleton’s men stranded on ice floes, far from solid land. Shackleton’s account of their extraordinary struggles to survive is as gripping as any novel. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Tepui
Author: John Oehler
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-12-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781522758563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1559, forty-nine Spaniards exploring a tributary of the Orinoco River reached a sheer-sided, cloud-capped mountain called Tepui Zupay. When they tried to climb it, all but six were slaughtered by Amazons. Or so claimed Friar Sylvestre, the expedition's chronicler. But Sylvestre made many bizarre claims: rivers of blood, plants that lead to gold ... Jerry Pace, a burn-scarred botanist struggling for tenure at UCLA, thinks the friar was delusional. Jerry's best friend, the historian who just acquired Sylvestre's journal, disagrees. He plans to retrace the expedition's footsteps, and wants Jerry to come with him. Jerry refuses, until he spots a stain between the journal's pages--a stain that could only have been left by a plant that died out with the dinosaurs. Now he has to find that plant. But the Venezuelan wilderness does not forgive intruders. Battered and broken, they reach a remote Catholic orphanage where the old prioress warns of death awaiting any who would venture farther. But an exotic Indian girl leads them on, through piranha-infested rivers and jungles teaming with poisonous plants, to Tepui Zupay--the forbidden mountain no outsider has set eyes on since the Spaniards met their doom. This is a story about life's surprises--the challenges, risks--and how they transform us. It is also a tale of Beauty and the Beast.
The Coldest March
Author: Susan Solomon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-11-12
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780300099218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetails the expedition of Robert Falcon Scott and his British team to the South Pole in 1912.
Scott's Last Expedition
Author: Steve Parker
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780565092870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Scott's last expedition exhibition is a collaboration between the Natural History Museum in London, Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand and Antarctic Heritage Trust New Zealand" -- T.p. verso.
